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...week, properly furred and parkaed, González is scheduled to go ashore, inspect the little garrison, and rechristen the base Camp Bernardo O'Higgins (after the hero of Chile's War of Independence). That would be his answer to the British, who this week sent the cruiser Nigeria steaming toward the disputed waters...
...Royal Canadian Navy's ace navigators. On Atlantic convoy duty, said he, "the Admiral thought nothing of going to sleep while I took the squadron through the Smalls" (reefs at the entrance to Bristol Channel). With Littler as navigator, Canada's first cruiser, the Uganda, steamed 80,000 miles and never missed a rendezvous. Littler gave radar much of the credit, called it the most valuable...
...speedy, 31-year-old battle cruiser Renown was always remembered as the ship which had carried the Prince of Wales (now the Duke of Windsor) on his tours around a world which the Prince then still charmed and the British Navy still awed. In 1941 she won Royal Navy renown by braving air attacks and boldly steaming close inshore to bombard Genoa...
...College. A 15-hour-a-day worker, Joe gets up at 5130 in his home at Newton, Mass., spends his off hours on his 46-ft. cruiser daydreaming up new textile tricks, like "Crown College." To pep up morale in his main Crown plant in Pawtucket, R.I., Joe built glass-enclosed smoking rooms, decorated the plant in cheerful colors, landscaped its lawns, built a playground and baseball diamond. Among New England's grimy, ancient plants it so stood out that workers began calling it Crown College...
...welding knowledge to work on his first steel model, playfully called it "Electrolysis." But he did not start mass production until 194,5. Last year, his assembly-line yard at West Haven, Conn, turned out one steel cruiser every 90 minutes, and he grossed $4,250,000. (When Steelcraft's 1,000th boat came off the line, Churchward had it lifted 106 feet by a crane, then dropped to demonstrate its indestructibility.) So far, he has turned out 1,860 cruisers. This year he is stepping up production one-third, and hopes to turn out more small cruisers than...